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noun

‘Among anxious parturients, fetuses moved into a more active state when maternal relaxation was achieved with hypnotherapy.’

‘Backache after labour and delivery occurs in half of parturients irrespective of whether they received regional anaesthesia.’

‘While we do not fully subscribe to the principles of ‘natural childbirth’ we do feel that the parturient is helped both mentally and in the progress of labor if she is kept informed about her true condition and constantly reassured.’

‘Many of the risk factors are highly prevalent among parturients, limiting their utility.’

‘The authors studied the records of 3,461 parturients who had at least one other delivery at the study hospital and whose previous offspring's cord serum specimens were available.’

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin parturient- being in labour, from the verb parturire, inceptive of parere bring forth.